Automated taxon identification in systematics : theory, approaches and applications / edited by Norman MacLeod.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2008.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 339 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map

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Series
  • Systematics Association special volume ; no. 74. [More in this series]
  • The Systematics Association special volume series ; 74
Summary note
The automated identification of biological objects or groups has been a dream among taxonomists and systematists for centuries. However, progress in designing and implementing practical systems for fully automated taxon identification has been frustratingly slow. Regardless, the dream has never died. Recent developments in computer architectures and innovations in software design have placed the tools needed to realize this vision in the hands of the systematics community, not several years hence, but now. And not just for DNA barcodes or other molecular data, but for digital images of organis.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Contents
  • Digital innovation and taxonomy's finest hour / Quentin D. Wheeler
  • Natural object categorization : man versus machine / Phillip F. Culverhouse
  • Neural networks in brief / Robert Lang
  • Morphometrics and computer homology : an old theme revisited / Fred L. Bookstein
  • The automated identification of taxa : concepts and applications / David Chesmore
  • DAISY : a practical computer based tool for semi-automated species identification / Mark A. O'Neill
  • Automated extraction and analysis of morphologic features for species identification / Volker Steinhage [and others]
  • Introducing SPIDA-Web : wavelets, neural networks and internet accessibility in an image-based automated identification system / Kimberly N. Russell [and others]
  • Automated tools for the identification of taxa from morphological data : face recognition in wasps / Norman MacLeod, Mark A. O'Neill and Stig A. Walsh
  • Pattern recognition for ecological science and environmental monitoring : an initial report / Eric N. Mortensen [and others]
  • Plant identification from characters and measurements using artificial neural networks / Jonathan Y. Clark
  • Spot the penguin : can reliable taxonomic identifications be made using isolated foot bones? / Stig A. Walsh, Norman MacLeod and Mark A. O'Neill
  • A new semi-automatic morphometric protocol for conodonts and a preliminary taxonomic application / David Jones and Mark Purnell
  • Decision trees : a machine-learning method for characterizing morphological patterns resulting from ecological adaptation / Manuel Mendoza
  • Data integration and multi-factorial analyses : the yeasts and the BioloMICS software as a case study / Robert Vincent
  • Automatic measurement of honeybee wings / Adam Tofilski
  • Good performers know their audience! : identification and characterization of pitch contours in infant- and foreigner-directed speech / Monja A. Knoll [and others].
ISBN
  • 9781420008074 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1420008072 ((electronic bk.))
  • 084938205X ((alk. paper))
  • 9780849382055 ((alk. paper))
OCLC
169907087
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